Audrey sat by the window of the estate’s sitting room the moonlight spilling across her face. The world outside was still and peaceful but inside her mind chaos reigned. She pressed her fingertips to her temples closing her eyes as flashes of her past broke through like jagged shards of glass.
The muffled voices grew louder in her mind each indistinct word an ominous echo that seemed to reverberate in her chest. The metallic scrape of a lock being turned rang out clear and sharp dragging her further into the memory’s icy grip. She could almost feel the cold bite of steel chains against her wrists… the weight of them the way they clinked with every futile movement she made. It wasn’t real anymore and she knew that somewhere in the rational corner of her mind but her body rebelled refusing
